Stephen Hawking warns over making contact with aliens
Aliens almost certainly exist but humans should avoid making contact, Professor Stephen Hawking has warned.
In a series for the Discovery Channel the renowned astrophysicist said it was “perfectly rational” to assume intelligent life exists elsewhere.
But he warned that aliens might simply raid Earth for resources, then move on.
“If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans,” he said.
Prof Hawking thinks that, rather than actively trying to communicate with extra-terrestrials, humans should do everything possible to avoid contact.
He explained: “We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.”
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with all due respect, i don’t think Hawkings predictions will be such. Imaging alien being who is so technologically advanced to cross the intervening vastness of interstella space (or advance enough to have acquired knowledge how to travel through a wormholes) do you really think they’d have not figured out a way to conserve or even make resources abundant in their own world. Just consider nano-technology which humans have just began to understand and develope. you can virtually make resources at your wish given the nanobots and technology is advanced enough.
the speculation hawkings shows a failure of nerve and imagination. what you should be worried about is all the Christians/Jews/Muslims/hindhus and rest of all closed groups, who might comeout and harm any alien being visiting us (if they ever visit).
it better be titles ‘hawking goes crazy’ lol